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  2. 30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature’s ...

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    To give you a glimpse of how amazing this connection can be, here's a list of man-made objects that fit the bill. #1 Bird Safe Glass Every day, hundreds of birds die from flying into glass windows.

  3. Fish aggregating device - Wikipedia

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    A fish aggregating (or aggregation) device (FAD) is a man-made object used to attract pelagic fish such as marlin, tuna and mahi-mahi (dolphin fish). They usually consist of buoys or floats tethered to the ocean floor.

  4. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    Cooking, however, made starchy and fibrous foods edible and greatly increased the diversity of other foods available to early humans. Toxin-containing foods, including seeds and similar carbohydrate sources, such as cyanogenic glycosides found in linseed and cassava , were incorporated into their diets as cooking rendered them nontoxic.

  5. Artificial reef - Wikipedia

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    Environments that are well-suited to larval to juvenile stages may differ from those favored by adults. For example, 1-2 year old Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus), show a much higher attraction to living in vertical artificial reef structures than older Red Snapper. By ages 6–8, adults return to muddy and sand bottom habitats, which provide ...

  6. 50 Stunning Examples Of Nature Reclaiming What Humans Left ...

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    These stunning images capture the quiet, unstoppable force of nature taking back what was hers We build roads, carve out neighborhoods, and raise cities from the ground up. But in reality, our ...

  7. Closed ecological system - Wikipedia

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    Man-made closed ecological systems which were created to sustain human life include Biosphere 2, MELiSSA, and the BIOS-1, BIOS-2, and BIOS-3 projects. [ 4 ] Bottle gardens and aquarium ecospheres are partially or fully enclosed glass containers that are self-sustaining closed ecosystems that can be made or purchased.

  8. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human - Wikipedia

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    Wrangham also argues that cooking and control of fire generally affected species development by providing warmth and helping to fend off predators, which helped human ancestors adapt to a ground-based lifestyle. Wrangham points out that humans are highly evolved for eating cooked food and cannot maintain reproductive fitness with raw food. [3]

  9. Human food - Wikipedia

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    Human food is food which is fit for human consumption, and which humans willingly eat.Food is a basic necessity of life, and humans typically seek food out as an instinctual response to hunger; however, not all things that are edible constitute as human food.